Art of decorating pottery-ware



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UNITED STATES Parent Ut rine,

LAUR;

,A. FRY, or CAMP Dennison, onio.

ART .OF DECORATlNG POTTERY-WARE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettersfatent No. 399,029, dated. March 5,1889;

Application filedlliarch 16, 1886 Serial No. 185,404. (Specimens To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA A. FRY, of Camp Dennison, in the county ofHamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a neW' and.

useful Improvement in the Artot' Decorating Pottery-Vere; and I dohereby declare that the followingis a full and exact descriptionthereof.

My invention consists in the application to the surface of the wareafter the article has received its final shape. and heioreit is finallyIt consists, furthermore, in heatin gr the ware when hard or glazed uponthe surface and thereafter applying the coloring-matter, in

manner as hereinafter described, to the hot f surface, and finallyfiring or glazing the decorated article.

To carry my invention into effect, the col- 2 ormg natter is blown uponthe surface of the wareeither in its soft state, in the bisque state, oron the glaze before firin;

in the form of a cloud or an atomized spray or mist, produced by meansof any of the usual forms of atomizers which are operated by anair-blast or a steam-blast, or by the lungs of the operator, and which,being well known, need not be herein described. After the ware has thusbeen decorated the color is fixed by firing the ware in the customary Iemploy the coloring-matter either in a liquid or semi-liquid form, or inthe form of a ver dry, almost impalpalile, powder, as desired. As thecoloring-matter is blown from the tube of the atomizer and carriedtherefrom in a cloud of line, almost imperceptible, particles, it may bereadily directed upon the article in such manner as may be found bestadapted to produce the desired effeet, the application being freely madewhere the color is to be intense, and more delicately.

made in proportion as the color effect is to be delicate, or otherwisevaried as the taste,

skill, or ingenuity of the operator may dietate. A single color may thusbe applied to acolor ground, or different colors may be appliedseparately, or, by means of separate atomizing-jets, several olors maybe applied simultaneously.

By this process delicat(.-cloudingif cloudin g it maybe called-isproduced entirely free from outline and possessing a peculiarly delicatevanish, and where two colors merge a peculiar softness of blending issecured which may not be otherwise attained. A variety of beautiful andnovel efifects may also be ob t ained which it is notnecessary herein todcscribe. Y

The coloringnnatler and the glazing material for the clay-Ware may bemixed togetheI and applied. to the article by my process, or thecoloring-matter may be applied as above described, and the glazethereafter applied by the usual process oi dipping; and tiring.

l/Vhere the clayavare to be colored or decorated has been once fired,and is not therefore sufficiently absorbent, l heat the same beforeblowing the color thereon, the effect-of the heat of the article beingto cause the liquid coloring-matter to quickly dry without marring theeffects which are sought in its application.

I am aware that coloring-matter in a liquid state has heretofore beenapplied to the glazed surfaces of china-ware by sprinkling or spatteringthe same thereon with the aid of a comb and brush, the comb being passedover the brush dipped in the coloring-matter in such manner as to causethe latter to fly off in fine independent drops orparticles, thisprocess being technically known as spatterwork, andl make no claimthereto.

My improved process differs from spatterwork in that, instead of beingspattered in small in dependent drops, the color is laid upon the warein a cloud or sheet of almost imperceptible spray or mist, producingvery diiterent effects, and such have hitherto been unknown.

I claim as my invention" 1..lhe 'iinpr0venicnl'= in the art ofdecorating articles of clay-ware, which consists in blowingau atomizedspray or cloud of coloringin manner as described.

matter upon the surface thereof, and there- I In testimony whereoi. Ihave signed my name no after-fixing the same by firing, substantially ii to this specification in the presence of two subi scribing witnesses.

2. The improvement in the art of decorating clay-ware, which consists inheating the LAURA A. FRY. surface and blowing upon the heated surface anatomized spray or cloud of coloring-mai- \\'iinesses:

ter, and thereafter fixing the same by firing, J. F. ACKER, Jr.,

substaniially in manner as described. S.M. MADDEN.

